JPF Home Page Forums General Messages Brian Austin Whitney Blog Friday, July 13th, 2007

Hi Folks,

So.. Friday the 13th has come and basically gone (unless you're in Hawaii or farther west). Do any of you have superstitions about that sort of thing?

No, I don't.

Do you have a lucky guitar strap or a certain warm up excercise on keys or some other ritual you go through for luck?

No, I don't.

Do you believe in luck in terms of it being a real thing that some people have and some don't.. or it is just coincidence and hard work?

Not coincidence, but hard work and sometimes even without hard work, just being in the right place at the right time. Maybe designed to certain ways,,,even the hard work part. ??? Mystery as to who or what control things. Self only? Self with some intervention?

Are you scared of black cats crossing your path or stepping on a crack when you walk?

No

Spill the beans.. what do you believe? (especially important.. what do you believe even though you know it's crap but can't help yourself sometimes? Astrology? Saying "break a leg" before a performance? You get it...)

I believe I don't know a pure and only true answer. I only feel passion to do things. If the passion isn't there, I don't do it, unless I am committed through my word, or contract. The only thing that I recognize are certain numbers that attract my eye,,,make me suddenly look at the clock when I was not even thinking about what time it is. That happens a lot, and times are of two important dates which the numbers 1,11,53. And 7-11 are a part of. I don't look for them, but will notice when they are on anything. I bet others have that happen with their important dates. Subconcience seeing all I guess it is. ????? Don't know that either.

Now,,,with me once being a baseball player, you'd think I would have superstitions. But I never did while playing, as I would handle each day as a unique thing. A new chance to do better. If i did good one day, I would only think about doing some of the things I didn't do good at, and focus on them. (My weaknesses). So, watching others not step on the chalk lines, or having to swing a bat a certain number of times had no meaning for me. It was all about the performance, and being in the NOW. At practice here, or for the times I played out, I was an open book,,,,just wanting to take it in. The band did a toast before the first gig. That was fun. It was special. I didn't feel the need to do any other ritual though, before or after.

Black cats are not different than black dogs in their color, or anything black. It's just one of the many colors. I think people come up with all kinds of history about things, from many years ago when people were afraid of just about everything, and wrote it down, as if it is a fact.

Every day is new, Every action taken can be new too. That showed me there wasn't a need to have superstitions. Just a want to do something, and let it all be fresh, for that day. Shower before eating,,,,then if the next day calls for me to be hungry early,,,I'll eat first. If one leg comes out of the shower after a string of days of the other one,,,,,so what! It comes out and I dry it! I know people that have to even take a shower the same way, and come out the same way! Funny. To be open is to be free of all that others have come up with that some think they have to follow. Why? If a certain leg is there, and is wet,,,,dry it! No matter which one it is. The other will get dried anyway!

Just all seems silly to me. Another friend has to turn everything on and off three times before moving on. He probably heard it somewhere, and once did it, and got into the habit of it, and for some reason, is scared to stop that procedure. I told him the worse that will happen if stopped, is that his gear will last longer!

Ladders? If not going to fall apart, what's the big deal about walking under one. We walk under all kinds of things a lot heavier than a ladder that could crush us!

People long ago used to bury a rag in the ground that they used to rub their sores or warts with. The believed the rag decomposing would also take away whatever ailment they had.
Of course, after time, if the problem went away, they would remember the buried rag, and behold! The burying of the rag worked! A miracle!

Brian